Curiosity Mars rover heads toward active dunes
On its way to higher layers of the mountain where it is investigating how Mars' environment changed billions of years ago, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will take advantage of a chance to study some...
View ArticleA mystery that settled in stone
The strange pillarlike formation emerged after Crowley Lake reservoir was completed in 1941: stone columns up to 20 feet tall connected by high arches, as if part of an ancient Moorish temple.
View ArticleWashington project ensures forest stores carbon for decades
Half a small forest still standing near Mount Rainier faced clear-cutting before an effort in Washington state saved the decades-old trees and allowed Microsoft to help finance the project to offset...
View ArticleItaly's Etna in most dramatic eruption in 20 years
Fire and hot ash spewed high into the sky from Italy's Mount Etna in Sicily Friday, in one of the most dramatic eruptions of Europe's highest active volcano in the past 20 years.
View ArticleGlobal warming threatens jewels of nature, civilisation
From the glimmering coral of the Great Barrier Reef to Mount Fuji and the canal-crossed city of Venice, global warming may spell the final ruin of some of the most precious jewels of nature and...
View ArticleClimate change: How bad can it get?
Ministers in Paris have until Friday to conclude a 195-nation pact to stop Earth's climate becoming inhospitable to humans and other species.
View ArticleMars Rover Curiosity reaches sand dunes
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has begun an up-close investigation of dark sand dunes up to two stories tall. The dunes are on the rover's trek up the lower portion of a layered Martian mountain.
View ArticleNew Mars rover findings: Much higher concentrations of silica indicate...
New findings by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover are the focus of a press conference this morning at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in San Francisco, Calif. A group of scientists, including...
View ArticleJapan zoo recovers missing red panda after frantic search
A Japanese zoo scrambled all of its staff Thursday to track down a missing red panda, a zoo spokesman said, finally recovering her in a nearby area.
View ArticleSandy selfie sent from NASA Mars rover
The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand.
View ArticleLead found in ink used to write scrolls buried by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
A team of European researchers has found evidence of lead in the ink used by early Greeks when writing on papyrus scrolls in the town of Herculaneum, near Mount Vesuvius. In their paper published in...
View ArticleExhibit features luxuries of the wealthy 1 percent of Ancient Rome, new info...
In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted and wiped out a favorite vacation hotspot of the wealthiest Roman elites.
View ArticleCuriosity Mars rover crosses rugged plateau
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has nearly finished crossing a stretch of the most rugged and difficult-to-navigate terrain encountered during the mission's 44 months on Mars.
View ArticleExplainer: How dangerous is turbulence, and can it bring down a plane?
If you have ever travelled on an aeroplane the chances are you have experienced some form of turbulence. For those of us who fly infrequently, it can be alarming and unnerving, but rest assured that...
View ArticleSediments in Gulf of Naples reveal impact on Roman water distribution after...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from France, the U.S., the U.K. and Italy has found evidence of disruptions to the water delivery system in the area around Naples after the eruption of...
View ArticleCuriosity Mars rover descends plateau, turns toward mountain
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has analyzed its 12th drilled sample of Mars. This sample came from mudstone bedrock, which the rover resumed climbing in late May after six months studying other features.
View ArticleNASA weighs use of rover to image potential Mars water sites
Ever since it was announced that there may be evidence of liquid water on present-day Mars, NASA scientists have wondered how best to further investigate these long, seasonally changing dark streaks in...
View ArticleImage: Sentinel-2A captures Mount St Helens
Sentinel-2A captured this image of Mount St Helens in the US state of Washington on 8 February.
View ArticleNASA rover game released for Curiosity's anniversary
As Curiosity marks its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since landing on Mars, the rover is working on collecting its 17th sample. While Curiosity explores Mars, gamers can join the fun via a new...
View ArticleFull-circle vista from NASA Mars rover Curiosity shows 'Murray Buttes'
Eroded mesas and buttes reminiscent of the U.S. Southwest shape part of the horizon in the latest 360-degree color panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
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